He was born in Tennessee.Married Sarah Jane Walling, dau. of James R. and Martha Mobley Walling Houston County, Daly Community, Texas.Don't know why Sarah Jane Walling would be in Carroll Co, Ark, but records show she married Jim Cunningham there 24 July 1870.

Moved to Erath County, Stephenville, Texas. Gen. shows moved there by 1875. Reported died, (had to have died Feb. 1893 or later)and buried in New Waverly Cemetery along with A. Elisha Walling who died in 1890.